Horror Stories of the Pyramids, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Horror Stories of the Pyramids, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Horror Stories of the Pyramids

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H. P. Lovecraft

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Unabridged: 6 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/04/2013


Synopsis

The Victorians were obsessed with Egyptology and mummies. It was during the second half of the 19th century that many of the most significant archeological finds were made in Egypt, and stories of the revenge of the mummies on anyone raiding their tombs, stealing their treasures or unwrapping their corpses abounded.

This collection brings together the best and scariest short stories of the period, featuring vengeance-seeking mummies, bandaged zombies, pharaonic ghosts and ancient curses.

"Lot No. 249", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Imprisoned with the Pharaohs", by Harry Houdini and H. P. Lovecraft
"Lost in a Pyramid or the Mummy’s Curse", by Louisa May Alcott
"An Egyptian Cigarette", by Kate Chopin
"Some Words with a Mummy", by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Mummy’s Foot", by Théophile Gautier
"A Professor of Egyptology", by Guy Boothby
"Nyarlathotep", by H. P. Lovecraft
"The Story of Baelbrow", by E. & H. Heron
"The Ring of Thoth", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

About Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle, a Scottish writer whose works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays, romances, poetry, and nonfiction, is best known as the creator of the detective Sherlock Holmes. While Holmes was the embodiment of scientific thinking, Doyle himself did not exhibit the same rationality, believing in fairies and occultism. His Sherlock Holmes stories have been translated into more than fifty languages and have been made into plays, films, radio and television series, cartoons, and comic books. By 1920, Doyle was one of the most highly paid writers in the world. Other works by Doyle include The Lost World, the first book in the Professor Challenger series; The White Company, one of his many historical novels; and The Great Boer War.

Doyle was born at Picardy Place, near Edinburgh, in 1859. He was educated in Jesuit schools and studied at Edinburgh University. In 1884, he married Louise Hawkins. Doyle qualified as a doctor in 1885 and practiced medicine as an eye specialist in Hampshire until 1891, when he became a full-time writer. Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, was published in 1887 and introduced the detective's faithful associate, Dr. Watson.

During the Boer war in South Africa (1899-1902), Doyle served several months as the senior physician at a field hospital. There he wrote The War in South Africa, in which he expressed the imperial view. He twice ran unsuccessfully for Parliament but nevertheless was knighted in 1902. In 1907, fourteen months after his wife died, Doyle married Jean Leckie. After his son Kingsley died in the first World War, Doyle dedicated himself to spiritualistic studies at his home in Windlesham, Sussex. He died himself in 1930.


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